An estimated 200 people or further have been killed in townlets in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara during deadly reprisal attacks by fortified bandits following military air strikes on their lairs this week, residers said on Saturday Residers gained access to the townlets on Saturday after the military captured the communities to organise mass burials, they told Reuters. The state government said 58 people had been killed during the attacks.
Ummaru Makeri, a occupant who lost his woman and three children during the attack, said around 154 people had been buried including several castigators who were killed. Residers said the total death risk was at least 200 Reuters reported on Friday that at least 30 people had been killed in the Anka original government area in Zamfara, when further than 300 fortified bandits on motorbikes stormed eight townlets and started shooting sporadically on Tuesday.
The service said it had conducted air strikes in the early hours of Monday on targets in the Gusami timber and west Tsamre vill in Zamfara state, killing further than 100 bandits including two of their leaders, following intelligence reports One occupant who declined to be linked told Reuters the attacks on the townlets could be linked to the military strikes.
There have been a series of attacks in northwest Nigeria, which has seen a sharp rise in mass rapes and other violent crimes since late 2020 as the government struggles to maintain law and order In a separate incident, 30 scholars kidnapped from their council in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi were freed on Saturday, a spokesperson for the Kebbi governor said, without furnishing details.
President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement on Saturday the service had acquired more outfit to track down and exclude felonious gangs that have been subjugating people to a reign of terror, including through the illegal duty of levies on communities under siege.
“The rearmost attacks on innocent people by the bandits is an act of despair by mass manslayers, now under grim pressure from our military forces,”Buhari said Buhari added that the government would not yield in its military operations to get relieve of the bandits.
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